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Somerset Maugham a famous British novelist ﹑ playwright and short story writer.(25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) section 1BriefIntroductionofhislifeYOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 Childhood8 years old his mom died ,two years later his father died.Maugham was sent to the UK to be cared for by his uncle, Henry MacDonald Maugham..his uncle proved cold and emotionally cruel, his new school was also difficult for him. He was teased for his bad English (French had been his first language) and his short stature, which he inherited from his father.YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 ChildhoodMiserable both at his uncle's vicarage and at school, the young Maugham developed a talent for making wounding remarks to those who displeased him. This ability is sometimes reflected in Maugham's literary characters.YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 CareerMaugham's father and three older brothers were all distinguished lawyers, but Maugham asked to be excused from the duty of following in their footsteps.Maugham had been writing steadily since the age of 15 and fervently wished to become an author，but later he studied medicine at the medical school ，meeting people of a "low" sort whom he would never have met otherwise, and seeing them at a time of heightened anxiety and meaning in their lives.YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 CareerIn 1897, he published his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, a tale of working-class adultery and its consequences.Liza of Lambeth's first print run sold out in a matter of weeks. Maugham, who had qualified as a medic, dropped medicine and embarked on his 65-year career as a man of letters. He later said, "I took to it as a duck takes to water."YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 MarriageDuring his year in Heidelberg Maugham met and had a sexual affair with John Ellingham Brooks, an Englishman ten years his senior. Although homosexual, Maugham entered into a relationship with Syrie Wellcome, an American-born English pharmaceutical magnate. Henry Wellcome sued his wife for divorce,naming Maugham as co-respondent.The marriage was unhappy,and Syrie divorced him in 1929, finding his relationship and travels with Haxton too difficult to live with.YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 MarriageMaugham's love life was almost never smooth. He once confessed: "I have most loved people who cared little or nothing for me and when people have loved me I have been embarrassed ... In order not to hurt their feelings, I have often acted a passion I did not feel.YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 Section 2Works and writing styleYOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 dramaLongnovelYOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 NotableWorksHis reputation as a novelist rests primarily on these books:YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in the fictional Vere Street. All in all, it gives the reader an interesting insight into the everyday lives of working class Londoners at the end of the nineteenth century.YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 In classic guide, Maugham introduces and discusses what he considers to be the ten greatest novels and their authors. Here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre. Maugham's choice list:Fielding's "Tom Jones"; 《汤姆·琼斯》（亨利·菲尔丁） Dickens's "David Copperfield"; 《大卫·科波菲尔》（查尔斯·狄更斯 ）Flaubert's "Madame Bovary"; 《包法利夫人》（福楼拜 ） Balzac's "Old Man Goriot"; 《高老头》 (巴尔扎克） Emily Bronte 's "Wuthering Heights",《呼啸山庄》（艾蜜莉·勃朗特） Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"; 《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》（陀思妥耶夫斯基) Stendhal's "The Red and the Black";《红与黑》（斯汤达尔 ）Austen 's "Pride and Prejudice"; 《傲慢与偏见》（珍·奥斯汀） Melville's "Moby Dick"; 《白鲸记》（赫尔曼·梅尔维尔) Tolstoy's "War and Peace". 《战争与和平》（托尔斯泰 ）YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 HisWritingStyleMaugham was influenced by the published journals of the French writer Jules Renard, Ibsen and his comedies was influenced by Oscar Wilde a lot. Maugham had enjoyed for their conscientiousness, wisdom and wit.He always hold calm, aloof even particular attitudes with some satire and mercy to observe life in almost all his works.YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 HisWritingStyleHis works are mianly about family, love and the twists in marriage.He described the situations and customs in the upper class and expressed the doubts about the society morality. His works are more satiric than humourous.YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 section 3InfluenceYOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 In 1947 Maugham instituted the Somerset Maugham Award,awarded to the best British writer or writers under the age of thirty-five for a work of fiction published in the past year. Notable winners include V. S. Naipaul, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis and Thom Gunn. On his death, Maugham donated his royalties to the Royal Literary Fund.YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 Other writers acknowledged his work. Anthony Burgess, who included a complex fictional portrait of Maugham in the novel Earthly Powers, praised his influence.Ian Fleming noted that he wrote the short story Quantum of Solace as an homage to Maugham's writing style. George Orwell said that Maugham was "the modern writer who has influenced me the most, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills."YOUR COMPANY NAME | LONG AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION TITLE | VERSION NO. XX | 06/06/2012 。
